Luís Miguel Cintra

Two friends cannot find their way around the city of Lisbon. It is a film, which could be a poem, that has no genre and serves as a bridge ...

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the ...

Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film crews during ...

Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion ...

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the ...

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people’s windows and thinks that they are truly happy.

Théophile spends his holidays in Italy, in the Marche hills, and enjoys the freedom he finds at his grandfather’s. The latter, who lives a ...

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and ...

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes ...

The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the ...

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love ...

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. ...

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that ...

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio’s historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal ...

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is ...

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and ...

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to ...

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist ...

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert ...

The story of a family of bull fighters.

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy’s girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, ...

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In “The Immortals,” adapted from a Helder ...

In this French-Portuguese film — directed by Jacques Rivette’s screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent — French vocalist ...

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the ...